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Huawei posts 3.2% rise in profit in 2020, as revenues decline from outside of China

Global Economy

Reuters
31 March, 2021, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 31 March, 2021, 02:16 pm

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Huawei posts 3.2% rise in profit in 2020, as revenues decline from outside of China

The company’s carrier business, which includes 5G network equipment, brought in 302.6 billion yuan, an increase of just 0.2% a year earlier

Reuters
31 March, 2021, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 31 March, 2021, 02:16 pm
The Huawei logo is seen at the IFA consumer technology fair, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany September 3, 2020. Photo: Reuters
The Huawei logo is seen at the IFA consumer technology fair, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany September 3, 2020. Photo: Reuters

China's Huawei Technologies reported modest annual profit growth for 2020 as overseas revenues declined due to disruption caused by the pandemic and the company's placement on a US export blacklist.

Net profit for 2020 came in at 64.6 billion yuan ($9.83 billion), up 3.2%, compared to growth of 5.6% a year earlier.

Huawei was put on an export blacklist by former US President Donald Trump in 2019 and barred from accessing critical technology of US origin, affecting its ability to design its own chips and source components from outside vendors.

The ban put Huawei's handset business under immense pressure, with the company selling off its budget smartphone unit to a consortium of agents and dealers in November 2020 to keep it alive.

Yet Huawei reported that its consumer business, which includes smartphones, brought in 482.9 billion yuan, up 3.3% year on year, and accounted for over half of the company's revenue.

The rise in part was thanks to growth in devices such as smartwatches and laptops, a Huawei spokesman said.

The company's carrier business, which includes 5G network equipment, brought in 302.6 billion yuan, an increase of just 0.2% a year earlier.

Huawei's growth was driven by its home market, with revenue in China up by 15.4% to 584.9 billion yuan.

Its business declined everywhere else, with revenues down 12.2% to 180.8 billion yuan in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, down 8.7% to 64.4 billion yuan in the rest of Asia, and down 24.5% to 39.6 billion yuan from the Americas.

Revenue from the company's enterprise segment soared 23% year on year to 100.3 billion yuan, although it still makes the smallest in revenue of the three business groups.

The company invested 141.9 billion yuan in R&D spending in 2020, up from 131.7 billion yuan a year earlier.

Huawei's cash flow from operating activities was 35.2 billion yuan, down by 61.5% on a year earlier.

($1 = 6.5716 Chinese yuan renminbi)

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